VIDEOS: AXIOS! Father Daniel Galadza

Walt is happy to share the great news that a week ago, Sunday, February 8th, Father Deacon Daniel Galadza was ordained to the Holy Priesthood through the laying‑on of hands by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Patriarch of Kyiv‑Halyč at the Basilica of Santa Sofia in Rome. This first video shows the entire cereemony. 

  

Father Daniel is one of the sons of +Father Roman Galadza, of blessed memory, founding Pastor of St. Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, in Brampton ON, in the Eparchy of Toronto.

Father Daniel is a distinguished scholar and clergyman serving as Professor of Eastern Christian Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, an international research partner with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Special Liturgical Commission of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. He is well known for his research on the Byzantine Rite and for his monograph Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem (Oxford, 2018).

We conclude with "Transquil Light", from Vespers on the Eve of Father David's ordination, sung by family and friends in Rome for the occasion.

 

Please keep Father Daniel in your prayers as he enters the presbyteral ministry, and may God grant him many blessed years in service to the Church.